"I was surprised by his appointment because I have read some of his writings in which he is not only critical but super critical of the church's traditional teaching on the whole issue of homosexuality, " he told the Today programme.
Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.
These are the traditional centers of religious teaching, and in Pakistan alone, there are something like 12, 000 madrassas.
Khachkar craftsmanship is transmitted through families or from master to apprentice, teaching the traditional methods and patterns, while encouraging regional distinctiveness and individual improvisation.
The resurrection of the Shia clergy in Iraq, the traditional wellspring of Shia teaching, has lately reinforced this trend, with many of its respected scholars professing political quietism rather than Islamic revolution.
He concluded that a return to traditional teaching was the only rational response.
"If we only depend on people coming into teaching through the traditional ways, we won't crack it, " she said.
In 2007 Public Agenda surveyed 865 first-year teachers in high-needs schools, some of whom had graduated from traditional teaching programs, others who entered the profession through Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, and Troops to Teachers.
The Air Force Weapons School provides advanced training for a handful of elite officers each year in traditional skills, like teaching aerial combat, reconnaissance and bombing, and also for the growing ranks of drone pilots.
Other classes could be conducted in the traditional manner locally, or schools could adopt a hybrid approach with local teaching assistants supplementing remote lectures.
She admits she sometimes wishes she could just teach in a "traditional" classroom again, because teaching with games all of the time can be challenging.
Unfortunately, though health care is changing rapidly, traditional medical education focuses on teaching physicians to function solo, learning the details of diagnosing and intervening, but not so much the complexities of engaging disparate groups of clinicians, including nonphysicians, in common cause.
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And inspections of the underperforming ones often find that they make insufficient use of whole-class teaching, phonics, or other traditional methods.
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